Projects

"Climate change, and our response to it, are issues of global importance, affecting food production, water resources, ecosystems, energy demand, insurance costs and much else. There is a broad scientific consensus that the Earth will probably warm over the coming century; climateprediction.net should, for the first time, tell us what is most likely to happen."

The goal of the project is "to understand protein folding, misfolding, and related diseases

Run by The Scripps Research Institute to predict protein structure from protein sequence in the context of the 6th biannual CASP, or Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction. A major goal of the project is the testing and evaluating of new algorithms to predict both known and unknown protein structures.

Its goal is to develop methods that accurately predict and design protein structure and complexes, an endeavor that may ultimately help researchers develop cures for human diseases such as HIV/AIDS, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, malaria and many other diseases, because most diseases are manifested at the level of protein activity.

Tests drug candidates interaction with a Target molecule that is essential to the spread of the disease under scrutiny. By evaluating the energy level released by binding a small molecule drug candidate to the surface of a larger Target molecule (D2OL)™ determines the fitness of the particular candidate to a region of the Target structure known as the Active Site.

Help find a cure for cancer by giving 'screensaver time' from their computers to the world's largest ever computational project, which will screen 3.5 billion molecules for cancer-fighting potential

The Drug Design and Optimization Lab (D2OL)™ works to discover drug candidates against Anthrax, Smallpox, Ebola and SARS and other potentially devastating infectious diseases.

Research into new drug therapies for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.

A project designed to further develop the Quantum Monte Carlo method for general use in Quantum Chemistry.

Using the Orbit Reconstruction, Simulation and Analysis framework to monitor the impact hazard posed by Near-Earth objects.

"Einstein@Home is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. Einstein@Home is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations."

"Simulates particles traveling around the Large Hadron Collider to study the stability of their orbits.

Simulate the effects of various evolutionary factors on the survival of populations of endangered species and on the evolution of novel functional adaptations.